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chad
@studiomurdock
Films: Limitations (coming soon), Fingers In the Wind , Booty Call: Nothing Defeats Desire! , Fathers & Sons , Phantom of a Killing
Philly เข้าร่วม Mart 2013
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@AlwaysFlacko I understood what you said but can filmmakers not make movies— or desire to make them —outside of that? Since we’re talking about the filmmaker and not the investor
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@studiomurdock I just said that's why people invest their money in films not why filmmakers make them dummy
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Is the film being produced to make a profit for the owner of the means of production?
smart ass mf
Forrest Miller 🎥🏆@AlwaysFlacko
Respectfully, the question here becomes: does a filmmaker need to pay a cast and crew?
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@AlwaysFlacko Then maybe filmmakers should think of other reasons to make their movies. Especially if they want to run around calling themselves communists.
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@studiomurdock generally that's why people invest in films, yeah...
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And furthermore does that message truly *reach* the audience or does it just exist in front of them?
Chris'thulu, the Accursed Harbinger 🐙🐲@komradekhris
Are the contradictions of the mainstream production pipeline worthwhile to make movies with a message that can reach a wide audience is the question we're really asking here
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but what is Boots doing with said rope?
Liger@EdbieLigerSmith
Pisses me off watching Boots Riley have to explain the very basics of Marxism to American leftists. STFU up with your purity politics. This man is a legend & knows so much more than you. For the love of God read just a little. The simple line “the capitalists will sell us the rope” debunks all of your grievances with his art.
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Again, his mode of production is the main ideological compromise. But too many people have a specific, industrialized, conception of what it means to make a film.
Boots Riley@BootsRiley
@normalwomxn @quiveringpudle So- you're going full, unprincipled, attempt-to-move-the-goal-post attack mode. I made no ideological compromises2make my work. 1st, Megan Ellison isnt on any BDS list. again stop faking some kind of constructive discussion, when if u wanted 2b in a convo, ud have started a convo
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@ThatNerdGurl_ @AGoldenkind @a_ehunt But every other artist in every other medium has to deal with the same restrictions.
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@AGoldenkind @studiomurdock @a_ehunt I'd rather see more money go to films that could use it then filmmakers restricting themselves and having to force their artistic vision around a very small budget.
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Respectfully, the question here becomes: does a filmmaker need $20 million to make a movie?
Boots Riley@BootsRiley
Wonder if this person knows how capitalism works. Or that Annapurna (Megan Ellison's company) also put out Sorry ToBother You. Or that corporations put out The Coup's music. Or- maybe they know someone w $20M wholl give it to me to make a movie. The goal isn't gentler capitalism.
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The reality is that as long as cinema is seen as a cultural commodity produced for profit, this contradiction will exist.
Yes, you have to pay workers an ethical wage.
But does the practice of filmmaking require a worker-owner relationship to the means of production?
Kristen@ThatNerdGurl_
@AGoldenkind @studiomurdock @a_ehunt What does this actually mean? Because outside of crowfunding and state grants, there's not really a system that exists where everything is ethical and the production pays their crew fairly. And you can't just sign up for $20m in state grants
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This all leads to some uncomfortable conversations about the operation of the film set.
We’ve been taught, through specialization, that it requires that many people and that much money to produce a film when that is simply not the case.
Brandon@brandonv97771
@studiomurdock Genuinely trying to follow. If public financing has been stripped and the only way for artist to make art, other than crowdfund, how do they make it? And the 20 mil is spread across 100s of crew members which helps people live. Build things. Pays permits. Etc. I’m just confused
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The Zionists are carrying out genocide in Lebanon.
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JUST IN: Nearly half of the U.S. data centers planned for 2026 are reportedly expected to be delayed or canceled.
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🚨BREAKING: Iran has halted all oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz following Israeli strikes on Lebanon, according to IRGC-linked Fars News Agency.
The pause comes after a brief reopening earlier in the day, when two oil tankers were allowed to pass with Iranian approval following the ceasefire, the news agency reported.
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